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Emily Blunt stars as the magical nanny in ?Mary Poppins Returns.?
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‘Mary Poppins Returns’: Sequel is practically perfect in every way

Emily Blunt, holding the movie in her impeccably gloved hands, makes Mary Poppins her own. But this is no one-woman show; every role here is cast perfectly, from Lin-Manuel Miranda's song-and-dance man to Meryl Streep’s enchantingly goofball cameo. Rating: 4 stars out of 4.  WATCH

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A guide to the Seattle art world, for newcomers and locals alike

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Critics’ picks for the best films of the past five years

World Book Day

Great reads: An interactive guide to the best books from the past few years

Ornate seats at the Grand Illusion, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, in Seattle. On the screen is actor Mickey Rourke in “9 1/2 Weeks,” which is being tested to an empty house to see if the DVD is projection-worthy. If so, the theater would get permissions to show the film from the 1980s. 204209
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Explore Seattle’s romantic — and vanishing — historic moviehouses  WATCH

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Paperback Picks: books by Kevin Kwan, Bill McKibben and Sherry Jones

Just in time for holiday shopping: a biography of the fascinating Josephine Baker, a radio host turned underground renegade and more.

Great reads

An interactive guide to best books from the past few years

Movies

Fred Savage, left, and Ryan Reynolds in ?Once Upon a Deadpool.?

How ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ is different from ‘Deadpool 2,’ besides PG-13 rating

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Minus the Bear

Seattle’s Minus the Bear says goodbye with 3 sold-out nights at the Showbox

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Kathie Lee Gifford to leave NBC’s ‘Today’ show in April

NEW YORK (AP) — Kathie Lee Gifford will put aside her morning glass of wine and step away from NBC's "Today" show in April. NBC News chief Noah Oppenheim told staffers Tuesday morning that Gifford will leave the show after 11 years of getting up early, most recently hosting the 10 a.m. hour slot alongside...

Theater

“Poor People’s TV Room,” by New York-based artist Okwui Okpokwasili at On the Boards, filters three cultural currents (the “Women’s War” of 1929 in Nigeria, the #BringBackOurGirls movement against kidnapping by Boko Haram, the fantastic fame of Oprah) into one haunting four-person performance.

Ghosts, plastic sheeting, Oprah: the hypnotic cultural kaleidoscope of ‘Poor People’s TV Room’ at On the Boards

Fall Arts Guide

A guide to the Seattle art world, for newcomers and locals alike

Classical Music

Exterior shot of Seattle Opera’s new headquarters, located at 363 Mercer St. in Seattle, which will have its grand opening Saturday, Dec. 15. Shot Monday, December 10, 2018. The new $60 million building has 105,000 square feet of space. 208657

Seattle Opera debuts its new $60M headquarters  VIEW

Visual Arts

A happy, soup-eating crab drawn by Tuan Nguyen goes along with the recipe for crab soup that he contributed to the cookbook called “Cook.”

‘Cook’: How an arts community provided the recipes for a perfect Northwest cookbook  VIEW

Pacific NW Magazine

The iconic ‘acid ball’ along the Whatcom Creek Waterway is a remnant of the old Georgia Pacific pulp mill and now stands at the new Waypoint Park. Downtown Bellingham looms behind the waterway and acid ball. A sailboat makes its way between two parked barges. The Port of Bellingham waterfront project includes 170 acres of central waterfront to be redeveloped after the Georgia Pacific pulp mill closed down 20 years ago. Photographed on October 24, 2018. 207561

After 12 years of more talk than action, work on Bellingham’s central waterfront is finally underway

Dance

‘That transformation is radical’: Tango trend allows swap of traditional gender roles

Queer Tango classes, new to D.C. this fall, are part of a growing movement that rejects the dance’s traditional gender roles.